Easily install and launch Quake maps with the cross-platform Differences
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| + | ====== Quake on Android====== | ||
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| If you want to play Quake on your Android smartphone you have several choices. | If you want to play Quake on your Android smartphone you have several choices. | ||
| + | ===== glesquake ===== | ||
| [[https://code.google.com/p/glesquake/|glesquake]] has no audio and you need hardware buttons. It seems to be a typical "curiosity" port. It seems technically impressive and well-planned but not tailored to user-friendliness. It is not actively developed anymore. You can read more about it at http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2009/10/gles-quake-port-of-quake-to-android.html | [[https://code.google.com/p/glesquake/|glesquake]] has no audio and you need hardware buttons. It seems to be a typical "curiosity" port. It seems technically impressive and well-planned but not tailored to user-friendliness. It is not actively developed anymore. You can read more about it at http://grammerjack.blogspot.com/2009/10/gles-quake-port-of-quake-to-android.html | ||
| - | [[https://code.google.com/p/quake-android/|quake android]] seems to be taking the glesquake codebase and adds touch controls to it. It does not offer an .apk outside the Google Play store. TODO I cannot find it in there either at the moment. | + | glesquake is available for easy installation through the free software repository F-Droid: http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=quake&fdid=com.android.quake |
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| + | ===== quake android===== | ||
| + | https://code.google.com/p/quake-android/ seems to be taking the glesquake codebase and adds touch controls to it. It does not offer an .apk outside the Google Play store. | ||
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| + | ===== FTEQW/FTEDroid ===== | ||
| + | [[http://www.fteqw.com/|FTEQW]] is a cross-platform Quake engine that runs even on your electric toothbrush. It has an Android port as well. You can directly download the .apk at http://triptohell.info/moodles/android/FTEDroid.apk (this download is updated regularly, you will be running the bleeding edge of software development). | ||
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| + | With FTEDroid you can play singleplayer, play or spectate multiplayer (both Quakeworld and Netquake, QTV works very well), mods, everything really. Put your pak0.pak and pak1.pak into /sdcard/fte/id1/ . On a Nexus One ''timedemo demo1'' gives 18fps. | ||
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| + | You can find some more usage info and discussion in http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/topic/5969/quake-ported-to-windows-phone-8 (regardless of the title). | ||
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| + | <WRAP center round todo 60%> | ||
| + | There might be more engines out there, so please add them to this page. Do not promote engines where the source was/is not released. | ||
| + | </WRAP> | ||